How does nothingness feel?

[Death is beautiful]

What do you think it's like to be an eternal nothing? For example, falling asleep and not waking up? Tell about your options

 

[ItsMe-Hecked]

What do you think it's like to be an eternal nothing? For example, falling asleep and not waking up? Tell about your options

It'll hurt for like a minute. Then, you blink. No end credits. Just a cut.

 

[FuneralCry]

You simply do not feel anything, as you will no longer exist. We cannot comprehend in any way what this is like as existence is all we know.

 

[Istanbulite]

I follow the Epicurean approach, so there won't be much pain once we are dead. Complete peacefulness.

 

[TheHatedOne]

In my opinion it's like sleeping but with no waking up.


Think about sleeping as a process. You just feel you're "about to" then BAM! Nothing. You lose all awareness and won't feel anything in the process, nor when going through it (if we exclude nightmares and dreams). Then, as sudden as you fell asleep you also wake up.

Eternal nothingness is like sleep, but with no dreams or waking up involved. You won't ever feel anything anymore. It's similar as how it was before you were born.

 

[Noctis]

I see at as the first billions of years before me will feel exactly like the billions of years after me. I won't exist. My feelings won't exist. Any sense of the passage of time won't exist. I'll just...stop.

 

[Wrennie]

I've been under General Anesthesia 10 times and it is what it is.

Nothing.

No feeling, no time, no thought, no memories, no identity, no pain, & no pleasure either. It means forsaking everything within your mind that makes you yourself.

 

[little helpers]

nothingness is not a thing for you to feel. it's called nothingness for a reason. I've had ODs. there's just nothing there. *I* wasn't there.

 

[ImsooDone1N]

I think it wouldn't feel like anything, because there would not be anything to feel, because you no longer exist. Your gone & the only memories of you are pictures & the memories others have of you. But IMO it's just nothing. No more pain or suffering. Sorta like passing thru the event horizon of a black hole.

 

[Somber]

Remember how you felt before being born? It's exactly like that.

 

[Snake of Eden]

It feels like

 

[D&D]

"Nothingness" and its equivalents in other languages is string of signs/symbols (letters) arranged to name, to put to words what is otherwise indescribable.

 

[Live Free or Die]

I've been having amazing dreams lately. Filled with wonder, fun and happiness. It has caused me to want to sleep more and more. I do have occasional nightmares, but no matter what I dream about it's always better than being awake. If I knew that death was an endless slumber where we dreamed for eternity.. I'd be gone tonight.

 

[Marktheghost]

Remember how you felt before being born? It's exactly like that.

This. Exactly.

 

[BeansOfRequirement]

Probably similar to how it feels to chew 5 gum.

 

[VoidDesirer22]

I've been having amazing dreams lately. Filled with wonder, fun and happiness. It has caused me to want to sleep more and more. I do have occasional nightmares, but no matter what I dream about it's always better than being awake. If I knew that death was an endless slumber where we dreamed for eternity.. I'd be gone tonight.

Doing anything for an eternity, including dreaming, is hell to me. I want what I had before birth - nothing more, nothing less. :) But yeh dreams are fucking cool.

Probably similar to how it feels to chew 5 gum.

What flavour :D

Remember how you felt before being born? It's exactly like that.

What's beautiful is it isn't even something to "feel"; just the absence of everything. It is a "non-state".

 

[Kalebri]

A complete oblivion like this:

But without consciousness.

 

[Nanako]

It doesn't.

 

[Journeytoletgo]

I still find this awful

 

[AreWeWinning]

What do you think it's like to be an eternal nothing? For example, falling asleep and not waking up? Tell about your options

The question that no-one knows that answer to.

I have been under anaesthesia once. I remember going under, then the next moment I'm waking up. In reality it was a few hours, but it literally felt like no time had passed. Very bizarre feeling. When you sleep, you still have a sense of how much time has passed. But under anaesthesia, you don't. If that's what it feels like to be dead, it'd be ok with that. But at the same time, I still can't imagine being in that state for an eternity. It's unimaginable. Yet, that's probably what it's going to be.

 

[Chiisai]

If it will help you have a peace of mind, just think of it as sleeping.

 

[bero4666]

Try thinking about how it was before you were born

 

[DontGiveAshiit]

Try thinking about how it was before you were born

ho, the good ol' days....

 

[albino_elk]

Remember how you felt before being born? It's exactly like that.

fractals and tunnels. everythings glitchy. everyone can tell at best "imo".

 

[raghu1977]

I've been under General Anesthesia 10 times and it is what it is.

Nothing.

No feeling, no time, no thought, no memories, no identity, no pain, & no pleasure either. It means forsaking everything within your mind that makes you yourself.

This! Although in my case - the complete lack of pain for a few seconds is such bliss!

 

[DivineMedicus]

What do the eyes at the back of your head see? It's kind of like that.